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In 1987, Oxnard did an extensive computer analysis of the existing bones of Australopithecusand concluded that it walked like an ape, not a man. He demonstrated that the creature’s big toestuck out as in chimpanzees.In 1993, Christine Tardieu, an anthropologist in Paris, reported that Lucy’s “locking mechanismwas not developed.” Humans have a locking mechanism in the knees that allow us to standupright comfortably for long periods of time. Lucy didn’t have that, so she certainly didn’t standaround nonchalantly like she is depicted in the museums.In 1994, Dr. Fred Spoor and his colleagues at University College, London, using CT scans ofaustralopithecine inner ear canals, demonstrated that they did not walk habitually upright(“New Evidence: Lucy Was a Knuckle-walker,” Creation Ministries International, May 5, 2000,citing F. Spoor, B. Wood and F. Zonneveld, “Implications of early hominid morphology forevolution of human bipedal locomotion,” Nature 369(6482):645–648, 1994).In 1994, Jack T. Stern, Jr., told the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of PhysicalAnthropologists that he believes that A. afarensis “walked funny, not like humans” (Gish, p.257).In 2000, Science magazine reported that Lucy “has the morphology that was classic forknuckle walkers” (Erik Stokstad, “Hominid Ancestors May Have Knuckle Walked,” Science,March 24, 2000, Vol. 287, no. 5461, pp. 2131-2132). Stokstad says, “I walked over to thecabinet, pulled out Lucy, and shazam! -- she had the morphology that was classic for knucklewalkers.”In 2009, after anthropologists gathered at the Institute of Human Origins in New York to discussLucy, a report in the New York Times made the following interesting conclusion:“The debate over whether the primate Lucy actually stood up on two feet three million years ago and walked--thus becoming one of mankind’s most important ancestors--has evolved into two interpretive viewpoints, threefamily trees, spats over four scientific techniques and too many personality clashes to count. ... The long andshort of it is, according to a participant, that bipedality lies in the eye of the beholder” (“Did Lucy ActuallyStand on Her Own Two Feet?” (New York Times, Aug. 29, 2009).Thus, there is no consensus even among the evolutionists themselves that Lucy walked uprightly,and there is strong evidence that she did not.The fact that textbooks and museums typically portray Lucy as an unquestionable humanancestor and as an upright walker is evidence that their objective is to brainwash the public withan evolutionary myth rather than provide real objective education.It is probable that “Lucy” and her kin typically walked on all fours like an ape, while walkingupright for short distances. One day in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 2008, I saw a rhesus macaque253